One of Casting for Recovery UK & Ireland’s team members, Lottie Weston (pictured), an oncology specialist nurse who has worked in the breast cancer sphere for many years, is running the Royal Parks Half Marathon to raise funds for the charitable project. The half marathon will take place on 8th October and Lottie is already in…

We had a huge response to The Great Outdoors’ Photography Competition sponsored by ZEISS so thank you to all who took the time to enter. It was an incredibly difficult competition to judge and the calibre of entries was extremely high. However our panel of judges took to the challenge and scoured through the huge…

The Countryside Alliance’s Head of Shooting, Liam Stokes (pictured), will be addressing the fourth annual Shotgun & Chelsea Bun Ladies’ Shooting Conference which will be taking place at The Chateau Impney Hotel in Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire, on 30th September 2017. Liam will be updating delegates on the key issues facing shooting at present and our…

The Royal British Legion in partnership with The Countryside Alliance Foundation Invites you to a Charity Concert To be held at Sherborne Abbey on 12 October 2017 at 7.00pm Tickets: £30 £25 £20 (restricted viewing/TV screen) Sherborne Tourist Information Centre Digby Road Sherborne DT9 3NL Phone: 01935 815341 Email for tickets: [email protected]

Yesterday saw some brave riders tackle the Prudential Ride London 100-mile cycle challenge through London and Surrey to raise vital funds for the Countryside Alliance Foundation. The riders had to complete the gruelling 100-mile course in under eight hours and we are delighted that all of them were successful with no reports of any major post-race…

The Beretta Serpentina 490 is a true masterpiece of craftmanship and, prior to its auction for charity, Camilla Swift spoke to Franco Beretta to discover the story behind this unique collector’s item. Past meets future What does a company like Beretta do to celebrate its 490th birthday? After some thought, the current president, Franco, decided…

On Sunday 17 September the Countryside Alliance’s Midsummer Blast 2017 will take place at Minterne House, Dorchester, by kind permission of the Hon Mr and Mrs Henry Digby. Details of the event are as follows and a downloadable registration form is available here. • Teams of Four guns to shoot (£480 per team) • Shoot will…

We had a wonderful evening at the Royal Hospital Chelsea last night for a fundraiser for The Countryside Alliance Foundation’s Casting for Recovery fly fishing programme for ladies with breast cancer, its sister project Fishing 4 Schools which provides short fishing courses for youngsters and the Angling Trust‘s Save our Salmon conservation campaign. Martin Salter of…

Fishing 4 Schools founder and director Charles Jardine was part of the six-strong team that ran the Virgin Money London Marathon for TCAF on Sunday (23 April). He has been blogging each week in the build-up to the event – here is his final blog. You can still sponsor him – here It’s over! I…

A massive thank you is due to the six runners who took part in yesterday’s Virgin Money London Marathon (23 April) in aid of The Countryside Alliance Foundation (TCAF). Between them, they have so far raised more than £11,000 for the TCAF initiatives Fishing 4 Schools, Falconry for Schools and Casting for Recovery. This will…

Fishing 4 Schools founder and director Charles Jardine will run the Virgin Money London Marathon on Sunday (23 April) for Fishing 4 Schools. You can sponsor him through JustGiving It’s the final few days before the TCAF team runs the London Marathon and Charles is getting nervous… here’s his weekly blog. So here we are….

Fishing 4 Schools founder and director Charles Jardine will run the Virgin Money London Marathon on 23 April for Fishing 4 Schools. You can sponsor him through JustGiving. It’s been a tough week, an itsy bitsy type of week, with lots of stuff on that’s meant it was hard to fit in my training. If…